Hotas setup for the upcoming Cliffs of Dover

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

I know it is not CH fault, but Tigerdirect's.Ill try to cancel the other order and buy from an official dealer.

Sorry about your canceled order, that totally sucks! I think I'll give them a call tomorrow and *try* to cancel my order with them. I'll just get my stick from CH themselves and be done with 3rd party retailers (unless Amazon has them in stock again, but they only get a few at a time and they go quick!).

I'd hate to rub it in your face Roy, but the throttle and pedals are damn nice. You're going to like them when you finally get them. I don't know how people were complaining about the pedals being too narrow, they seem perfectly fine to me. It's not like my legs are smashed together trying to use them heh. I hope they don't slide on my carpet while in the heat of combat. The casual flight around an airfield I had, they worked fine. The rubber stoppers in the bottom seem better suited for a hard surface though.

Now I have the daunting task of trying to learn CH Control Manager. Poking around with it on my own for over an hour and still pretty much clueless. Going to have to find that Control Manager for Dummies PDF I looked at a few days ago....

Probably shouldn't even say these words for fear of starting some crazy war, but Track IR is leaps and bounds better than the FacetrackNoIR I was using with my webcam. Holy moly!

[Royraiden]

Well guess what, I got a phone call while I was at college from UPS.So I got the Combatstick at home!!!! Called tiger about the other order that got cancelled, they told me that they wont seel those items anymore.So Im gonna buy them from another site.Maybe Amazon, dont know yet.Lets unbox!!!

Edit**Holy sh)^& this thing is huge!!!!

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

Edit**Holy sh)^& this thing is huge!!!!

LMAO. I can only imagine based off the size of my throttle, which is also pretty damn big.

So I take it you got no notification or tracking number from TD about your combat stick being shipped???

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by blampars

LMAO. I can only imagine based off the size of my throttle, which is also pretty damn big.

So I take it you got no notification or tracking number from TD about your combat stick being shipped???

None whatsoever, and they havent charged me yet, I hope they dont LOL.Im just staring at this thing.It does seem like its built like a tank even though it is not heavy at all.

[blampars]

Absolutely lame on no tracking notification. Maybe I'm strange but I love watching my package move across the country and land at my doorstep haha.

Fingers crossed on not getting charged. For the time you waited and the extra grief, they'd better not charge you

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by blampars

Absolutely lame on no tracking notification. Maybe I'm strange but I love watching my package move across the country and land at my doorstep haha.

Fingers crossed on not getting charged. For the time you waited and the extra grief, they'd better not charge you

I doubt it is going to happen but no one knows .How was your experience with Amazon?And how much was the shipping?

[blampars]

Amazon experience was very good. Took them 2 days to get it shipped with tracking numbers available. Ordered everything on thursday and got it this afternoon. No complaints.

Orders over $25.00 ship free with their super saver shipping method. Their speedier shipping is relatively low cost if you opt to go that route.
The rudder pedals came with some free simulator software that I've yet to take a look at. An added bonus I guess.

I'd personally recommend trying to get the rest of your stuff through them, the pedals and the throttle were both around $95, fyi.

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by blampars

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Now I have the daunting task of trying to learn CH Control Manager. Poking around with it on my own for over an hour and still pretty much clueless. Going to have to find that Control Manager for Dummies PDF I looked at a few days ago....

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+1 on that. Got a Combat stick and Pro throttle about a week ago. I've calibrated the controllers using Control Manager and saved a profile - but it's hard to get a handle on the other features - and with the possibility of using modes and writing scripts things can get out of hand pretty quickly.

Unfortunately it's a little difficult to grasp some of the concepts from the provided help. Need to go back to the Dummies pdf again myself.

Should be very powerful and configurable once I've mastered it though!

[ElAurens]

After over 8 years with CH gear I have never figured out the control software for it. A classic example of software by programmers for programmers.

Fortunately every thing I need for the sim can be configured in the game itself.

Still the CH hardware is the best out there. Bullet proof.

[blampars]

Originally Posted by SsSsSsSsSnake

blampers, i agree about the ch control software,if you find help please post it |.glad you like the pedals,im toying betweem saitek combat and the ch,using a thrustmaster hostas x throttle for thw rudder and stuff cus the x52 pro throttle dont have a rocker swith for rudder,do the pedlas centre themselves and if not how do you know your rudder is centred without looking in the dial in cockpit
thanks, and both of you enjoy

The rudders center themselves when you dont put pressure on one of them, plus there is a type of 'slot' feel when they are centered. the thing i'm noticing is i'm always slightly hitting the toe brakes on them (the rocking part of the pedal), but that's probably due to how I'm sitting at my desk.

Originally Posted by kendo65

+1 on that. Got a Combat stick and Pro throttle about a week ago. I've calibrated the controllers using Control Manager and saved a profile - but it's hard to get a handle on the other features - and with the possibility of using modes and writing scripts things can get out of hand pretty quickly.

Unfortunately it's a little difficult to grasp some of the concepts from the provided help. Need to go back to the Dummies pdf again myself.

Should be very powerful and configurable once I've mastered it though!

I've gotten as far as you have with calibrating the controllers and saving that profile, or map. My problem comes when I assign, say, F and V for flaps up and flaps down with IL2. Save the profile, download it to my controler(s) and launch the game, those commands don't work. The other thing that confuses me is the direct mode, mapped mode buttons in the software. After I download my profile to the devices I can't seem to go back and edit them further as the buttons are all greyed out. I have to log out of windows and back in to get the software to recognize my button presses on the controllers again. I'm normally a pretty tech/software savvy guy but this software has me down on my knees right now lmao.
We're not even going to get into scripting at this point, although I've seen some nice examples of how it can be implemented. Right now I just want to get basic functionality out of my HOTAS so I can get used to it all.

Originally Posted by ElAurens

After over 8 years with CH gear I have never figured out the control software for it. A classic example of software by programmers for programmers.

Fortunately every thing I need for the sim can be configured in the game itself.

Still the CH hardware is the best out there. Bullet proof.

I'm loving the feel of the hardware, but like you said that software is something else! Hopefully I can figure out how to get all my basic commands mapped at some point, as I'm having fits with it right now (see above).